Monday, November 21, 2011

Ethics in Fashion Photography

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer. (Look carefully)
Her eyebrows were done, her jaw was made more skinnier, her eyes were made bigger.

2. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like this in a photo? Why or why not?
I feel it could work both ways because when they change a persons appearance like this to sale a product it will get the woman that are insecure and they would want to look like that. They feel that if they buy the product it will soon get them to look like that. I also feel that it is wrong because people that use this product will not come out to look like that in the end. It's false advertisement.

3. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?
Somewhat, I mean if they just used the girl on how she normally looked without all the makeup and photo editing, that they would not be able to sale as much products as they wish. As for, giving the woman a complete makeover and editing her appearance can sale the product more.

4. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?
I feel that fixing up the womans hair, adding make up, and all that other stuff to her face is okay. But, taking the photo into photoshop and making the woman more skinnier and changing up her appearance to where you can not even recognize that it is the same woman is not ok.

5. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.
To me, fashion photography is taking the photos you take of like models and editing them greatly like making them skinnier and clearer skin. When photojournalism is more of like a real world thing and with little tiny edits because they give the facts about what the picture is showing.

6. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each?
It relates to reality because it shows what real life people are doing. But in one, more of the object is being editied and doesn't really make it that realistic.

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